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In linguistics we call this “social gender”, which is basically whether a word has a feminine or masculine connotation. This kind of thing can be hard to intuit, since there are no hard and fast rules. Obvious examples include words like “nurse”, which may be technically gender neutral, but it’s got such a strong feminine connotation that many people will clarify “male nurse”. Less obvious examples are words like “muscles”, which all humans have, but the default interpretation is like, a manly guy with bulging biceps.

Many many words have social gender that’s difficult to notice, either because of the natural struggle to see gender, or because it’s just that subtle. So a corpus analysis like this is exciting because it gives concrete data on words we might not have thought twice about!!

Originally arrested for Insurance Fraud, he met the love of his life Phillip Morris in prison

He got out before Phillip, so he proceeded to GET PHILLIP OUT OF PRISON

He wanted to give Phillip a glamourous life, so he got a big-name job, and then started embezzling funds

he was arrested and then broke out TWICE MORE and kept busting out

then he was arrested again, and the above happened

while he was on the run from this, he was determined to get Phillip (who was in trouble for harboring him) out of prison so he pretended to be a lawyer and hit up Phillip’s jail 24/7. He tried to get Phillip moved to a prison closer to where he was hiding so he couLD VISIT HIM

AND THEN he made a fake identity and tried to get a 75k loan, and was arrested AGAIN, but he FAKED A HEART ATTACK AND LEFT BEFORE HE WAS EVEN PLACED IN PRISON AGAIN

There’s a movie about his life called “I love you, phillip morris” Starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor

The Ultimate Guide to Circular Gallifreyan in All of Time and Space

Introduction

Gallifreyan, is the language used by the Time Lords
of Gallifrey. It is (allegedly) a fictional language used
in the BBC TV show Doctor Who.

There are three known forms of written
Gallifreyan; Old High Gallifreyan, Modern Gallifreyan and Circular
Gallifreyan.

Old High Gallifreyan, the original ancient language of
the Time Lords, was declared by the 11th Doctor to possess the power to
“raise empires and destroy gods”. But by the Doctor’s era, it fell in disuse
and was known only to very few. Modern Gallifreyan, an evolved form of Old
High Gallifreyan was common at the time of the Doctor.

By the end of the last great Time War, Gallifreyan
could be written using a complex system of interlocking circles,
hexagons and connecting lines. This form of Gallifreyan is known as
Circular Gallifreyan.

Circular Gallifreyan is a language closely linked to
the TARDIS. The TARDIS contains a translation matrix, giving it the ability to
adapt to every other language, at least for those of us who aren’t Time Lords. In Muggle terms, Circular Gallifreyan
is more of a cipher or code than an actual language. It can be used to write
any language that can be translated to the same script as English. Since 2005
this version of Gallifreyan is used very commonly on the Dr Who TV
show.

Guide to Circular Gallifreyan

Step 1) Learn
the Basic Alphabet

Getting familiar with the basic alphabet is incredibly
helpful

I recommend memorizing the individual alphabets
because it makes the reading and writing process much faster, but if you don’t
want to do that, then you can use the
chart below for reference to the consonants.

In circular Gallifreyan, there is no version of ‘C’.
When there is a ‘C’ in a word, you replace it with either ‘K’ or ‘CH’ depending
on whichever sounds closer to it.

Some people write a version of ‘C’ that looks like ’D’
but with 4 dots. But that version is rather confusing because that can have
different interpretations, so I prefer to stick to the ‘K’ method.

Step 2)
Vowels in Relation to Consonants

Vowels are generally attached to the consonants
directly before them. In which case they will be placed “in relation to the
consonants” as seen in the chart below.

Vowels can also be put separately if there is no
consonant before them, or if that is more convenient. In such a case, they are
placed as seen in the alphabet chart. (see step 1)

Step 3)
Reading and Writing Simple Individual Words

Circular Gallifreyan is written and
read anti-clockwise starting from the central bottom part of the
circle.

Things to Keep in Mind :-

1) When you are writing the words, make small
markings for the lines and dots you need for the alphabets and
join them later. This way you can visualize the whole word. The lines can
be drawn in any direction, what is important about them is their number.

2) When writing words with double letters,
like Gallifrey that has 2 L’s, make a smaller circle within the
bigger one. Similarly, 2 T’s and all the other alphabets can be doubled by
making a smaller version of themselves within the original letter.

Examples :-

Step 4)
Grouped Words

In Gallifreyan, words in a sentence are grouped
together, making the individual word circles form a larger circle. This is
done by putting the individual circles in an anti-clockwise
pattern.

When reading Gallifreyan sentences, start at the
lowest part of the circle at the bottom of the main circle and read it
anticlockwise. Then do the same for all the other circles in the main circle, going
in an anticlockwise direction.

Examples :-

Eventually, with practice, you should be able to read
and write extensive passages in circular Gallifreyan

Examples :-

(Examples above are - ‘Love the running’ and ‘bad wolf’)

Step 5) Punctuation

In order to read and write large sentences in
their proper grammatical context, the following system of punctuation is
used in Circular Gallifreyan.

The punctuation of a sentence can be done by placing
the necessary punctuation next to the pertaining word circle or by placing it
in the outer circle of the word.

Step 6)
Number System

There are many systems for writing numbers in
Gallifreyan. There is even an entire system of doing advanced
mathematics! But, since the last time I saw my mathematics book I stabbed
it with a knife, killing it like the horcrux it is, I’ll stick to the
two most basic methods.

I personally prefer the second method, because it’s
much easier to use for really large numbers, like if you’re writing
the date (or star date). But, method 1 is the one that is seen used in Doctor Who. The second version is more like using
roman numerals, to an extent.

Step
7) (optional) Decoration

Circular Gallifreyan has a beautiful script, so
it will look good whether you write it free hand or elaborately with
a compass. If you do want to make it more decorative, then there are various
things you can do:-